Contact details
Jamil Mayet MBChB, MD, MBA, FESC, FACC, FRCP
Chief of Service, Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Reader
International Centre for Circulatory Health
St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Mayet studied undergraduate medicine at the University of Dundee and completed a research fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at St Mary's Hospital and Imperial College. He completed his MBA at the Edinburgh Business School.
He is a founding member of the International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH), a centre of excellence on the St Mary's Hospital Campus with an integrated research strategy in the field of circulatory medicine and a remit to apply the results of scientific endeavour to advance standards of care in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease to reduce the expected increase in disease burden around the world.
Dr Mayet research interests are in the clinical application of novel technologies which allow the translation of biophysical insights into applied clinical physiology. Specifically he has interests in the physiology of coronary flow and aortic pressure as well as the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. He has a longstanding interest in cardiac structural and functional changes with alterations in physiology and pathology particularly in hypertension and athletic training. He also has an interest in ethnic variations in cardiovascular disease. He is an important member of the cardiovascular population sciences team, providing cardiovascular imaging expertise to the design of large studies, including multi-centre collaborations headed by Imperial College.
Dr Mayet has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally in the fields of echocardiography, hypertension, diastolic dysfunction, left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, coronary and arterial physiology and coronary artery disease.
Dr Mayet sits on the Council of the British Society of Echocardiography and has been Chair of its Accreditation Committee until 2008. He is Deputy Chair of the North Thames West Cardiology Training Committee and sits on the Royal Society of Medicine, Cardiology Section Council. He was a British Cardiac Society Reviewer of the European Society Cardiology Guideline on Stable Angina and British Cardiac Society Expert Advisor to the NICE Guideline Group assessing the Management of Chest Pain in 2007. He sat on the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Cardiology 1999-2006, was a member of the expert group reviewing the NCEPOD Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Study 2003-5 and was the Royal College of Physicians / British Cardiac Society representative on National Heart Forum between 2003-6. He was invited to organise the Royal College of Physicians of London National Training Day on "Acute Coronary Syndromes" in 2005.
